Clouds
Study of Weather
Weather
Fun facts
Weather Conditions
100
A cloud can be made up of Water and/or Ice
What is a cloud made up of?
100
Scientist who study's weather
What is a Meteorologist?
100
Water falling to the earth
What is Precipitation?
100
Water
What is 3/4 of the Earths surface made up of?
100
Air pressure brings a change in weather
What does Air Pressure do?
200
Clouds form as water vapor cools and condences
How do clouds form?
200
a devise that collects weather data at sea
What is a weather buoy?
200
The sun
What provides the energy for the water cycle?
200
the North and south POLES
What areas of the earth receive the least amount of sun?
200
How cool or warn the air is
What is Air Temperature?
300
Cumulus, cirrus and stratus
What is the 3 types of clouds?
300
Radar towers that observe storm clouds
What is Dopplar?
300
A Glacier
What is a LARGE mass of Ice?
300
Protects us from the suns harmful rays and space debris
What valuable thing does the earths atmosphere do?
300
Where weather changes take place
What is a Weather Front?
400
white and puffy
What does a cumulus cloud look like?
400
Weather balloons and weather satellites
What are 2 devices used to collect weather data from high above the earths surface?
400
fog is a cloud near the ground
What is fog?
400
A low dark rain cloud
What is a stratus cloud?
400
A warm front occurs when warm air moves over cold air resulting in rain or snow
What is a warm front?
500
White straks, high in the sky and thin
What is a Cirrus cloud?
500
An Underground water reservoirs made of rock
What is an Aquifer?
500
Hail is made of Layers of ice, sleet is small ice, and rain is melted ice
What is sleet and hail and rain made up of?
500
The atmosphere is made up of a mixture of Gasses
What is the atmosphere made of?
500
When cold air bumps into warm air causing storms
What is a cold front?